Boston tandem parking spots sell for $560,000

Realtor Sean Sullivan poses at the $82K spot near AT&T Park in San Francisco. (Katie Meek / San Francisco Chronicle)

In San Francisco on Thursday, there was an uproar over a parking spot that sold for $82,000. But San Franciscans, you ain’t parked nothin’ yet.

That’s because an IRS auction in Boston just netted $560,000 for two spots in the Back Bay neighborhood. The tandem spots were seized by the IRS from a tax cheat. The auction started at $42,000 before skyrocketing, as two neighbors got in a bidding war Thursday. But the prices aren’t out of character: The Boston Globe says single spots in Boston have gone for $300,000 and $250,000.

According to a recent survey, London has the world’s most expensive parking rates, followed by Zurich. Third is Hong Kong, where a man owns two parking spots valued at $640,000 each. New York (of course) topped the U.S. rankings, and a spot there was set to be listed for $1 million in May 2012.

No word if that million-dollar spot ever sold, but it won’t be long before luxury spots go for even more than we can imagine. Why own an expensive car if you don’t have an expensive place to park it?